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Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $650

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Henricus Petri

Place

Basle

Publication

1553

Description

Shir ha-Shirim ve-Koheleth / Cantica Canticorum & Ecclesiastes Salomonis [song of Songs and Ecclesiastes]. Aramaic Targum and Latin translation face `a face. Appended: Ma’amar Kinah [Elegy of Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs for his master Sebastian Muenster]. Hebrew only

references

Vinograd, Basle 88; Prijs 90; Adams S-731; not in Darlow and Moule

summary

Schreckenfuchs (1511-1575) was a mathematician and professor of Hebrew language at the University of Freiburg, Germany. The elegist recounts that the void left by the death of Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), in terms of Christian Hebraic scholarship, was filled by Sebastian Muenster. He also praises the enormous contributions made by Elijah Levita

pp. (16), 285, (1), (1 blank), (1), (4 blank), (52). Holes in pp.149-154 repaired with some loss. Former owners’ stamp and inscriptions. Contemporary vellum. 8vo

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